Only waste metal, unfit for use; But it catches the sunshine and glitters still-- And what are those thrushesdoing there, Each with a scrap of steel in its bill?
So the thrushes took their nest, Every one his strength applied; But the youngest 'twas thought best Should be snugly tucked inside.
Another bird closely resembling the thrushes and bearing the name, yet placed in another family, is the brown thrasher, or thrush.
Last summer a pair of wood thrushes built their nest within a few rods of my house, and when the enterprise was fairly launched and the mother bird was sitting upon her four blue eggs, the male was in the height of his song.
It is perhaps the subdued light which inspires a certain solemn and hymn-like quality in the notes of wood birds, as in the thrushes and the altogether didactic tone of the redeye.
If we may speak of the temperament of birds, the thrushes must be accorded the religious temperament.
He also sings on the wing and with fervor, like the Linnet, while the other Thrushes sing only from their perch.
It is the least shy of all the thrushes except the robin, yet gracefully modest in its demeanor.
For what or whom was she waiting, in the silence, with the trees dropping here and there a leaf, and the thrushes strutting close on grass, touched with the sparkle of the autumn rime?
Milkwort and liverwort starred the green slope, the larks sang, and thrushes in the brake, and now and then a gull flighting inland would wheel very white against the paling sky, where the vague moon was coming up.
Mr. Ridgway says: "This bird and the robin are the only species of our thrushes that cross the Arctic Circle to any distance, or reach the shores of the Arctic Ocean.
In the winter festivals, when the older hunters bring out the trophies of their skill, the boys proudly display the skins of these thrushes and hang them alongside.
So closely does this bird resemble some of its sister thrushesthat it was not until the year 1858 that its distinctive characteristics were recognized and it was given a name of its own.
Yet she has fancied blackbirds hide A secret, and that thrushes chide Because she thinks death can divide Her from her lover; And she has slept, trying to translate The word the cuckoo cries to his mate Over and over.
THE skylarks are far behind that sang over the down; I can hear no more those suburb nightingales; Thrushes and blackbirds sing in the gardens of the town In vain: the noise of man, beast, and machine prevails.
One name that I have not-- Though 'tis an empty thingless name--forgot Never can die because Spring after Spring Some thrushes learn to say it as they sing.
Dishes there were of boil'd meat too, And sausages likewise and pasties; And roasted thrushes and rissoles Flew down men's throats spontaneously.
Teleclides says-- But roasted thrusheswith sweet cheese-cakes served Flew of their own accord down the guests' throats.
Then the seathrushes young and fierce, who dive Mid the deep rocks and tear their prey alive.
Nor did those heroes allow the birds the free enjoyment of the air; setting traps and nets for thrushes and doves.
You could ran the thrushes down, and catch them by hand, so lifeless were they; and I could show you the bushes any day where blackbirds dropped lifeless on their perches.
He heard the caw of homing rooks and the flutter of thrushes in the great Hall shrubberies.
February went by with her showers and her celandines, her snowdrops and thrushes that sing on bare branches.
As to the birds, the thrushes and blackbirds were mostly destroyed; and the partridges, by the weather and poachers, were so thinned that few remained to breed the following year.
I shall kill every one that comes,--for the sake of retaining the wrens, catbirds, phoebes and thrushes that now literally make home happy for my family.
The largest haul of dead birds was 43 robins, orioles, thrushes and woodpeckers, captured along with the five Italians who committed the indiscretion of sitting down in the woods to divide their dead birds.
Why have you only left for me The broom, the cherry's crown of snow, And thrushes in the linden-tree?
A thousand thousand grasshoppers are leaping, thrushes are labouring, filled with love and tenderness, doves cooing--there is as much joy as there are leaves on the hedges.
A great fieldfare rises, like a lesser pigeon; fieldfares often haunt the verge of woods, while the redwing thrushes go out into the meadows.
Thrushes have sung and ceased; they will begin again in ten minutes.
Thrushes sing every mild day in December and January, entirely irrespective of the season, also before rain.
The cover of strawberries is the constant resource of all creeping things; the thrushes looked round every plant and under every leaf and runner.
In the hawthorns blackbirds and thrushes built, often overhanging the stream, and the fledglings fluttered out into the flowery grass.
Blackbirds and thrushes are fond of searching about where the arums grow thickest.
Blue jays flitting, a magpie drooping across from elm to elm; young rooks that have escaped the hostile shot blundering up into the branches; missel thrushes leading their fledglings, already strong on the wing, from field to field.
To the broad coping-stones of the wall under the lime boughs speckled thrushes came almost hourly, sometimes to peer out and reconnoitre if it was safe to visit the garden, sometimes to see if a snail had climbed up the ivy.
We often have a pair of missel-thrushes ("shercocks" in Cheshire) nesting here.
One or two missel-thrushes generally come to the food-stand in winter and show themselves expert in getting fat from the supposed sparrow-proof receptacles.
Lately I have added cocoanuts to the bill of fare; they are appreciated by the tits, but blackbirds, robins and thrushes prefer the bread and fat mixture, or rather they do not seem to care at all for the cocoanuts.
In the spring of 1900 the grass was covered for many days together with some kind of little black fly, and sparrows a dozen or so at a time with blackbirds, thrushes and chaffinches found a continual feast in them.
Though missel-thrushes are common their song is not familiar.
This one thrush did, indeed, by some exceptional fortune, survive; but where were the family of thrushes that had sung so sweetly in the rainy autumn?
The blackbirds and thrushes that had been singing freely previously suddenly ceased singing about December 15, and remained silent for a month, and as suddenly began singing again about January 15.
Starlings were not at all plentiful; blackbirds and thrushes were there, but not nearly so numerous as is usually the case; fieldfares and redwings drifted by in the winter, but never stopped.
A thrush perhaps planted it--thrushes are fond of the viscous yew berries.
They say thethrushes dig up and eat the roots of the arum, yet they are not root-eaters.
Neither for the thrushesnor for the new-born infants in the tent did the onslaught of the winter slacken.
Thrushes sang, and chaffinches, and, sweetest of all, if simplest in notes, the greenfinches talked and courted in the trees.
If the thrushes and bobolinks could sing human music, and put human feeling into it, her voice would beat 'em all.
There was in this plaintive music of robins and thrushes a regret for the days of Summer spent together that were now passed away, and yet a more robust melody might have affronted the wistful air of these milkwhite dawns.
The days when the thrushes sang mattins were come and all the way she heard freshets of holy song pouring down through the air.
Thrushes sang in the ash wood all around him, the cuckoo called, and the chiff-chaff never ceased for a moment.
The thrushes flew but a little way back from the path as they passed, and began to sing again directly they were by.
An hour or so afterwards he came near the shore; he heard the thrushes singing, and the cuckoo calling, long before he landed.
The voice of the thrushes (and our robin and the European blackbird are thrushes) is flute-like.
At first her voice was not clear, but as she continued it emerged from its sheath of huskiness clear and flutelike, and liquid as the notes of the thrushes that inhabited the wood.
As Mr. Straker, hands in pockets and feet wide apart, watched the mechanician, there came through the silence and the sweet air the sound of thrushes calling from the wood beyond.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thrushes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
